Elina Svitolina stuns Iga Swiatek 7-5 6-7(5) 6-2 in the quarter in London on Tuesday. Svitolina will square off with Marketa Vondrousova in the semifinal. The match lasted 2 hours and 51 minutes. This run will match her best achievement in this tournament. Here you can see her history at this event.
Svitolina added to her prize money £ 260,000 after winning this match. She has already won £ 600,000 until now in this tournament. If she wins the next match, Elina will add £ 575,000 to her earnings to get in total £ 1,175,000.
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs. Iga Swiatek Wimbledon – London
Svitolina’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:51
At the end of the match, Svitolina scored 111 points vs. Iga’s 96.
Svitolina
The Ukrainian served exceptionally well to win 82% of the points (51/62) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 40% points (19/47) on her second serve. Svitolina was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that she procured (6/9).
Swiatek
On the other side, Swiatek was pretty effective at converting 60% of the break points that she conquered points (3/5). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Swiatek is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Elina Svitolina vs. Marketa Vondrousova – stats
Svitolina will come up against Vondrousova in the semifinal.
This will be the 6th time that Elina Svitolina and Marketa Vondrousova play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played, Vondrousova won 6-3 6-1 in the semifinal in Tokyo back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Svitolina was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Iga Swiatek in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, the Ukrainian refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Pole 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 10th (5-5) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
The Pole was powerless in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 3-5 to 7-5.
The Ukrainian was spot on in converting all her break points in the 4th (1-2 40-A), the 9th (4-5 0-40) and the 12th game (6-5 15-40). In addition on the other side, Iga was on the money in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 5th game (2-2 40-A).
They played 73 points. Svitolina was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Iga (40-33). Svitolina surrendered 15 points on serve (22-15). On the losing side, Iga conceded 18 points on serve (18-18).
Iga won the set after she broke the Ukrainian in the 3rd (2-1) game. The Ukrainian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Yet, the Pole stayed solid to eventually clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 5.
The Ukrainian surrendered the 3rd game (2-1) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
Tiebreak
The Pole won 2 minibreaks in the 8th (4-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Elina won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2) and 10th (5-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5
The Pole was spot on in converting all her break points in the 3rd (1-1 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 15-40 and 30-40). The Pole saved 1 set point when she was trailing 4-5. On the other side, Elina was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (2-3 15-40).
They contested 80 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Swiatek won just 2 more points than the Ukrainian (41-39). Iga lost 10 points on serve (27-10). Regarding the other side of the net, Svitolina conceded 14 points on serve (29-14).
The Ukrainian in this set didn’t concede much to Iga and without too much struggle she won 6-2 after breaking Iga in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A defining moment of this set was when Elina won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
The Ukrainian converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 5th game (3-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Ukrainian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 54 points. The Ukrainian won 10 more points than the Pole (32-22). The Ukrainian lost 9 points on serve (19-9). On the losing side, Swiatek conceded 13 points on serve (13-13).
Tennis Scores in Wimbledon
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-4 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (7-5 6-75 6-2) – Stats and score progression
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